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I used to have something funny on here. But now I have to be boring.
Haven't done the age verification yet so you can't DM me.
I used to have something funny on here. But now I have to be boring.
Haven't done the age verification yet so you can't DM me.
Martin's official #ThursdayQuiz is up _and_ comments are now open...
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Thursday news quiz: blindside shocks, volcano rocks and an airport pub unlocks
Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare?
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November 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Martin's official #ThursdayQuiz is up _and_ comments are now open...
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This could be exciting:
Thursdayquiz.org is going to send me an email when tomorrow's quiz appears. Except I will probably be asleep so if it all goes spectacularly wrong... 💥 🤣
(My intro is lousy. The idea's funny, but I can't make it work.)
Thursdayquiz.org is going to send me an email when tomorrow's quiz appears. Except I will probably be asleep so if it all goes spectacularly wrong... 💥 🤣
(My intro is lousy. The idea's funny, but I can't make it work.)
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This could be exciting:
Thursdayquiz.org is going to send me an email when tomorrow's quiz appears. Except I will probably be asleep so if it all goes spectacularly wrong... 💥 🤣
(My intro is lousy. The idea's funny, but I can't make it work.)
Thursdayquiz.org is going to send me an email when tomorrow's quiz appears. Except I will probably be asleep so if it all goes spectacularly wrong... 💥 🤣
(My intro is lousy. The idea's funny, but I can't make it work.)
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On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism".
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism".
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
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Interesting, second time I’ve seen someone get hit with a fine because their website made a cached copy of an open graph image from another site. In this case its Ghost scraping the site (cc @alistairshepherd.uk)
Bookmark thumbnails triggering copyright violation claims
Issue Summary I included a bookmark pointing to the Guardian website in a public article here: Stop Rosebank — More than just a Bad Deal for the UK The bookmark widget renders a beautiful short s...
forum.ghost.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Interesting, second time I’ve seen someone get hit with a fine because their website made a cached copy of an open graph image from another site. In this case its Ghost scraping the site (cc @alistairshepherd.uk)
@katarazzi.bsky.social munichmutterings has message you on the latest thursdayquiz thread.
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
@katarazzi.bsky.social munichmutterings has message you on the latest thursdayquiz thread.
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How much do we spend on welfare?
Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP – just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than 2007-08.
Since 2012-13, total welfare spending has actually fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP.
Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP – just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than 2007-08.
Since 2012-13, total welfare spending has actually fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP.
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
How much do we spend on welfare?
Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP – just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than 2007-08.
Since 2012-13, total welfare spending has actually fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP.
Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP – just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than 2007-08.
Since 2012-13, total welfare spending has actually fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP.
Thinking about Searle's Chinese Room.
Searle never imagined a rule might give the person implementing it a choice: 80% of the time you must chose this option and 20% of the time this option; but which choice, at any instance, is up to you.
Searle never imagined a rule might give the person implementing it a choice: 80% of the time you must chose this option and 20% of the time this option; but which choice, at any instance, is up to you.
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Thinking about Searle's Chinese Room.
Searle never imagined a rule might give the person implementing it a choice: 80% of the time you must chose this option and 20% of the time this option; but which choice, at any instance, is up to you.
Searle never imagined a rule might give the person implementing it a choice: 80% of the time you must chose this option and 20% of the time this option; but which choice, at any instance, is up to you.
Your lunchtime entertainment is here - a new supplemental quiz:
thursdayquiz.org/quiz-2025-11...
A sixteen question special!
We have KS3 maths, obligate chimeras, museum guides, googly eyes, tall teenagers, xmas lights, underwater car parks, passwords, hats, facebook, flamingos and Roman roads.
thursdayquiz.org/quiz-2025-11...
A sixteen question special!
We have KS3 maths, obligate chimeras, museum guides, googly eyes, tall teenagers, xmas lights, underwater car parks, passwords, hats, facebook, flamingos and Roman roads.
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Your lunchtime entertainment is here - a new supplemental quiz:
thursdayquiz.org/quiz-2025-11...
A sixteen question special!
We have KS3 maths, obligate chimeras, museum guides, googly eyes, tall teenagers, xmas lights, underwater car parks, passwords, hats, facebook, flamingos and Roman roads.
thursdayquiz.org/quiz-2025-11...
A sixteen question special!
We have KS3 maths, obligate chimeras, museum guides, googly eyes, tall teenagers, xmas lights, underwater car parks, passwords, hats, facebook, flamingos and Roman roads.
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TikTok is letting users decide how much Al content they want to see and is going to label everything that's Al generated with watermarks:
newsroom.tiktok.com/more-ways-to...
newsroom.tiktok.com/more-ways-to...
November 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
TikTok is letting users decide how much Al content they want to see and is going to label everything that's Al generated with watermarks:
newsroom.tiktok.com/more-ways-to...
newsroom.tiktok.com/more-ways-to...
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
This is brilliant. Edith has done it for banks, but it could be any modern business with glossy advertising that doesn't match the reality.
Cheque mate – trying to prove who you are to your own bank: the Edith Pritchett cartoon
Don’t bank on it …
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
This is brilliant. Edith has done it for banks, but it could be any modern business with glossy advertising that doesn't match the reality.
Thoughts on "class methods that expose hidden internal state purely for purposes of unit testing"?
November 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Thoughts on "class methods that expose hidden internal state purely for purposes of unit testing"?
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
The real class from Ben Stokes? Waiting to do his five-for till England is awake and can watch it all. 😁🏏
November 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The real class from Ben Stokes? Waiting to do his five-for till England is awake and can watch it all. 😁🏏
9*15/25 == 5.4
9/25*15 == 5.3999999999999995
Goddammit floats!
/* FWIW:
9*15/25 == 0x5.6666666666668;
9/25*15 == 0x5.6666666666664
And I'm well aware of their proclivities. But it doesn't make it any less annoying the millionth time they clobber you.*/
9/25*15 == 5.3999999999999995
Goddammit floats!
/* FWIW:
9*15/25 == 0x5.6666666666668;
9/25*15 == 0x5.6666666666664
And I'm well aware of their proclivities. But it doesn't make it any less annoying the millionth time they clobber you.*/
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
9*15/25 == 5.4
9/25*15 == 5.3999999999999995
Goddammit floats!
/* FWIW:
9*15/25 == 0x5.6666666666668;
9/25*15 == 0x5.6666666666664
And I'm well aware of their proclivities. But it doesn't make it any less annoying the millionth time they clobber you.*/
9/25*15 == 5.3999999999999995
Goddammit floats!
/* FWIW:
9*15/25 == 0x5.6666666666668;
9/25*15 == 0x5.6666666666664
And I'm well aware of their proclivities. But it doesn't make it any less annoying the millionth time they clobber you.*/
I do version control on the most trivial things; it's second nature. And thank goodness for that. Because, last night, I must have accidentally saved over the data file I was working on. A lot of cursing followed this afternoon when I realised. Then I pondered whether it was in the repo. It was.
November 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I do version control on the most trivial things; it's second nature. And thank goodness for that. Because, last night, I must have accidentally saved over the data file I was working on. A lot of cursing followed this afternoon when I realised. Then I pondered whether it was in the repo. It was.
Martin's OFFICIAL Thursday Quiz is up:
Thursday news quiz: TikTok horrors, hat-trick heroes and a rescued baby otter
Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare?
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Martin's OFFICIAL Thursday Quiz is up:
My web host seems to have added recaptcha to thursdayquiz.org. Which is nice (and I don't blame them). But this is defeating the bot _I_ use to download scores. Grrrrr!
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
My web host seems to have added recaptcha to thursdayquiz.org. Which is nice (and I don't blame them). But this is defeating the bot _I_ use to download scores. Grrrrr!
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Narrow range of animals for a vets.
Also, I don’t think you get many in Fulham.
Also, I don’t think you get many in Fulham.
November 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Narrow range of animals for a vets.
Also, I don’t think you get many in Fulham.
Also, I don’t think you get many in Fulham.
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How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
Martin's official Thursday Quiz appeared again at 6.30am
I forgot to close, but there's still a bit of time before comments close.
I forgot to close, but there's still a bit of time before comments close.
Thursday news quiz: hasty exits, horny bees and naked Nordics
Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare?
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Martin's official Thursday Quiz appeared again at 6.30am
I forgot to close, but there's still a bit of time before comments close.
I forgot to close, but there's still a bit of time before comments close.
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Billionaires shouldn't be able to buy a bigger voice in politics. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to cap how much they can donate and get big money out of politics
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November 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Billionaires shouldn't be able to buy a bigger voice in politics. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to cap how much they can donate and get big money out of politics
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
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Maybe Nigel Farage should refuse to appear on the BBC in protest.
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Maybe Nigel Farage should refuse to appear on the BBC in protest.